Voters in deep-red Kansas delivered a loud warning shot to Republicans, and Arizona Republicans nominated a 2020 conspiracy theorist to be the state’s top election official.
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understands the connection and intersection of race, gender, and the law and who have experienced being a black woman in this country, understand constitutional principles, the history of the constitution as it pertains to black women, to black people, and to women generally, who may bring some experiences with regard to criminal law and the impacts of race in criminal law, and so this is a moment in which we should all be rejoicing, because we are getting to a time when the supreme court will reflect the people who live in this country and the people who are expecting justice at the hands of this court, because we know we have voting rights issues, abortion issues, ie affirmative action before the court and to have a black woman there will be important with these issues. judith, while i have you, i want you to react to some of
issue? reporter: you know, again, i guess it depends on your real definition of key. but by and large looking at the top three, romney, paul and santorum. probably the strictest on abortion issues is rick santorum who believes there should be no abortions except in the case of the mother s life being in jeopardy. he also believes that there ought to be a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. but if you look at both paul and romney, while both are anti-abortion, paul saying only should there be abortion in the case of saving the mother s life, romney romney also thinks there should be exceptions for rape and incest. and both of them, interestingly, i just learned this today at the finer points of their position. mitt romney and ron paul both believe that the roe v. wade ought to be overturned and it should be september to the states.